Monday, June 2, 2014

NINETEEN YEARS AGO

Sometimes 'time' stretches out to infinitySometimes it shrinks to a nano-secondWe pass through, while it remains it's own measureFlowing in and out riding upon an imaginary tideSometimes it simply takes time

To adjust the self to loss

~*~

We, this people, on a small and lonely planet

Traveling through casual space

Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns

To a destination where all signs tell us

It is possible and imperative that we learn

A brave and startling truth.

And when we come to it

To the day of peacemaking

When we release our fingers

From fists of hostility

And allow the pure air to cool our palms

When we come to it

When the curtain falls on the minstrel show of hate

And faces sooted with scorn are scrubbed clean

When battlefields and coliseum

No longer take our unique and particular sons and daughters

Up with the bruised and bloody grass

To lie in identical plots in foreign soil

When the rapacious storming of the churches

The screaming racket in the temples have ceased

When the pennants are waving gaily

When the banners of the world tremble

Stoutly in the good, clean breeze When we come to itWhen we let the rifles fall from our shouldersAnd children dress their dolls in flags of truceWhen land mines of death have been removedAnd the aged can walk into evenings of peaceWhen religious ritual is not perfumedBy the incense of burning fleshAnd childhood dreams are not kicked awakeBy nightmares of abuseWhen we come to itThen we will confess that not the PyramidsWith their stones set in mysterious perfectionNor the Gardens of BabylonHanging as eternal beautyIn our collective memoryNor the Grand CanyonKindled into delicious colorBy Western sunsetsNor the Danube, flowing its blue soul into EuropeNor the sacred peak of Mount FujiStretching to the Rising SunNeither Father Amazon nor Mother Mississippi who, without favor,Nurture all creatures in the depths and on the shoresThese are not the only wonders of the world

BOB and SOPHIE

WILF RIP

JUDE's MAGIC FEATHER PROJECT

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JUDE's FLICKER

MAGIC FEATHER (click on picture to view slide show)

JUDE's STONES

Jude's Gathering STONES

ZEN HABITS

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You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.The great opportunity is where you are. Every place is the center of the world." -John Burroughs-

PLANT GROWTH

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WHAT IF

What if every little thing you do subtly alters the course of world history? What if your day-to-day decisions will actually help determine how the human species navigates its way through the epic turning point we're living through?-Rob.Bresney-

COMPASSION HEALS

By three methods we may learn Wisdom: First by reflection, which is noblest- Second by imitation, which is the easiest- Third by experience, which is the bitterest Confucius

WITNESSS

MIRROR

WORSHIP

David Foster Wallace said

The realization that you have something of value to contribute to the greater world necessarily involves prying your mind off yourself for a minute.